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When Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced plans Sunday to replace private airport screeners who check passenger IDs with federal workers, an expansion of the government screener takeover after 9/11 that created the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Frank Argenbright, Jr., saw his livelihood threatened - yet again...
...British Airways and other British carriers, including Ryanair and Virgin Atlantic, are blaming some of the problems, including more than a thousand canceled flights, on BAA, the airport operator, which they claim wasn't up to the job of handling the big increase in security. "Since 9/11, everyone in the industry has known there might be times when extra security measures needed to be put in place," British Airway chief executive William Walsh said this week. "Yet when the moment struck, BAA had no plan ready to keep Heathrow functioning properly. The queues for security have wound all round...
...want to live in peace with one another. We will be able to lead normal, quiet lives only if we stand up to terrorists. Illana Karman Beersheba, Israel If Hizballah's kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers gives Israel the right to bomb Lebanon, destroy bridges, blow up an international airport, blockade ports and tell people to leave their homes, then why is it wrong for Hizballah to launch rockets into Israel? Since this war started, far more Lebanese civilians have been killed than have Hizballah militants. This war needs to end now. There must be a cease-fire before even...
...city is I wanted high density. I don't want to be spread out from everybody else here by stinking, smelly, noisy vehicles in the middle of a city. I love cars and trucks. I love airplanes too. But you learn that you leave an airplane at the airport. You leave your car at the end of that nice trip on the highway. I don't taxi my airplane into downtown Manchester if I fly across the United States...
...have a little thing of Neosporin that they didn't catch." DEBBIE COX, U.S. passenger who flew to Denver last week, on heightened airport security that barred any liquids on board...